HUX graduate Randall Weaver is presenting the research for this HUX thesis at the Pacific Coast branch of the American Historical Association. The paper is entitled “The Forest Beneath the Clouds: Chinese Americans and Accommodation in 19th-Century Northwestern California”

HUX student Nina Bodway presented her research “Beyond the Canvas: Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and the Role of the Viewer in Creating Meaning” at CSUDH Research Day through distance delivery via Collaborate. She is a pioneer at Research Day presenting to a faculty panel and her mentor, Dr. Kirstin Ellsworth, here on campus from her home in Northern California. All the judges commended Nina on her professionalism. She locked up her 4 pets so the presentation was bark-free.

"HUX graduate now on Pandora! I'm the lead female vocalist for K Republic and I'm excited that we just got picked up by Pandora. We're so excited. You can learn about us at KRepublic.com. Friend us. I'm always telling people about Cal State Dominguez Hills and my awesome degree!"... Stephanie Starr

Summer 2012 HUX graduate Jacqueline Ortoleva presented the paper The Female Form in Etruria: Cultural Exchange and Cultural Distinction at the Classical Association of the Canadian in Edmonton, Alberta in March 2013. This paper is extracted from her thesis. Her mentor is Dr. Kirsten Ellsworth.

HUX student Tom Jones presented in the 2012 Student Research Day. His topic was: "The Napoleonic Code: Marriage and Divorce in Early Modern France."

HUX
Alum's Video "Checks and Balances" Wins Awards:
HUX
graduate Marcus Grandon has won a number of awards for his
video "Checks and Balances." Read his story and view the video.

David Marks, graduate
of the Master's
Degree in Humanities from
the Humanities Master of
Arts External Degree (HUX)
Program, won first place in
the Humanities and Letters
category at CSUDH?s Annual
Student Research Day
Competition. He then went on to place first in the 2011 all-CSU (out of 23 campuses) Research Day competition.

His paper, entitled From the
Will to Wessex to Arkham:
Lovecraft?s Geophilosophical
Debt to Hardy compared the
fictional worlds of authors
Thomas Hardy and H.P.
Lovecraft, the latter credited
as an inspiration to authors
today such as Stephen King. “It was important to me topick something that I wouldn?t be bored with and I would
enjoy researching for a great
deal of time,” Marks said regarding
his thesis.

Marks holds a full-time position
as Director of Corporate
Training and Development
for a biopharmaceutical
company. A Seattle native
who now resides in Los Angeles, he remembered the last
time he had to do research and
was excited how the advances in
technology made his life easier.
When he did his undergraduate
work at UCLA, he had to use thecard catalogs in the library,
search through books that sometimes,
after 300 pages, only mentioned
topics in one sentence.

“I saved so much time when I remembered
I could search for
something instantaneously on the
Internet, or I could have full research
documents emailed to me
and then search through those in
seconds for the words I was looking
for,” Marks said. “I never really
had any challenges with it, so my
research was truly a pleasure.”

“It (HUX) is such a great program,” Marks said. “Especially for
a working adult. It accommodated
my busy work schedule so I could
study on my own time.”

Two other HUX students presented
their research at the campus
event. Jandi DuPree
presented research from her thesis:
Character Mapping: The
Quest Archetype in Novels by
Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison,
and Terry Lazar presented research
from his creative project:Biomorphic Modeling: Extending
Surrealism with Multimedia.

Alum Updates Socrates' Philosophy, Captures International Attention
(Source: Dateline Dominguez
Hills)Christopher Phillips (Class of ’00, M.A. Humanities
External Degree) has captured the attention of The Christian
Science Monitor and Time magazine with his two books, Socrates
Café and the new Six Questions of Socrates, as well
as for his ever-growing international web of philosophy discussion
groups, Socrates Café.Read
more...

HUX
Student Andrew Cox Manages White House Travel (Source: College Bound)U.S.
Air Force Major Andrew Cox has a very interesting job. In
his current post, he runs the Executive Travel Branch for
the White House. . . . Like all military officers, Cox needed
an advanced degree to be considered for promotion. According
to Cox, most Air Force pilots pursue a masters in either aviation
or management, but Cox couldnt face going to class twice
a week for four hours to study an area in which he had little
interest. Read more...

Distance Learning: The Student Perspective (Source: Princeton Review)Linda
Brown Holt completed a Master of Arts in Humanities through
California State University at Dominguez Hills in 1993. Below,
she describes her experiences with completing a degree, without
campus attendance, through the use of correspondence study. Read more...

Ride
with pride (above): LeRoy Kaminski, HUX 1998 graduate,
has more than one reason for pride as he drives around
St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin in his customized 1951 Mercury.
He says his license plate "gives me the opportunity
to promote your program."

Alum Accomplishments

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with us your accomplishments since graduation! With your permission
we'll post them online for others to see. Email them to Dr.
Cherin.

Cathy
Ruiz was accepted in 2006 into the California Institute
of Integral Studies; PhD program in Transformative Studiews.

Paul
MacLeod was accepted in May, 2006 into the University
of Calgary's doctorate in Education program.

Dale
Walker, in August 2005, was awarded the PhD in Philosophy
from the University of Wales, Lampeter, in the United Kingdom.

Tom
Head's (class of 2000) many publications are listed
on his web
page:

Albert
L. Moore turned his HUX thesis into a book: Postal
Propaganda of the Third Reich (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military
History), 2003.

James
D. Owen (class of 1979) teaches at The Master's College.
He is publishing a book based on his HUX thesis entitled: The Hidden History of the Historic Fundamentalists, 1933-1948.

Phillip
M. Perry is a journalist, author and HUX graduate.
From his website:
“Award-winning journalist Phillip M. Perry has published
widely in the fields of business management, workplace psychology
and employment law. A 20-year veteran of both sides of the
editorial desk, Perry is now syndicated in scores of magazines
nationwide.” “Perry was awarded an M.A. in the
Humanities from California State University, Dominguez Hills,
California. He completed his undergraduate work at the University
of Notre Dame.”

Christopher
Phillips (class of 2000) has published two books: Socrates' Cafe and Six Questions of Socrates. He has founded the Society
for Philosophical Inquiry which helps people start Socrates'
Café. See the related article elsewhere on this page.

HUX
Alumni Photos

Show
your fellow grads what you're up to these days, or where you've
been since you left us. If you have a photo that you'd allow
us to post on the web, please send it to the HUX office.